1. American Biographical Index
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Atlantic Brief Lives
   A Biographical Companion to the Arts
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1974
   
3. Australian Biographical Index
   Resource Type: Book
   
4. Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1986
   "Bibliography of more than 16,000 biographical sources categorized by country and by occupation."
5. Biographical Dictionary of the American Left
   Resource Type: Book
   
6. Biography & Genealogy Master Index
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   "Cumulative index to more than 9 million biographical sketches in more than 1,030 current and retrospective biographical dictionaries."
7. British Biographical Index
   Resource Type: Book
   
8. The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
   Second Edition
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   
9. Canadian Who's Who Index 1898-1984
   Resource Type: Book
   Includes full name, year of birth, profession or occupation, and the volumes in which they appeared, for every person included in the Canadian Who's Who up to 1984.
10. Deutscher Biographisher Index
    Resource Type: Book
    
11. Dictionary of American Biography
    Resource Type: Book
    
12. Dictionary of Literary Biography
    Resource Type: Book
    
13. Dictionary of National Biography
    Resource Type: Book
    
14. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
15. The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
16. Internationaler Biographischer Index - World biographical Database
    Resource Type: Book
    
17. The Oxford Guide to Library Research - Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.
18. Robert Graves
    Life on the Edge
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    
19. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.

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